The generation that fell in love with VW's
microbus is now snapping up top-of-the-line vans

Car cognoscenti, with memories of woefully underpowered breadboxes-on-wheels stuffed with hippies, might choose Germany's VW. Younger readers might accept Chrysler's claim (from the days long before its 1998 merger with Germany's Daimler-Benz AG) as the origin of the species. Let us set the...